Josephus tells us that this appointed day was the second day of the sports and games held in Caesarea, at Herod's insistence, in honor of Claudius Caesar (Antiquities, XIX. 8.2.) "His royal apparel" Josephus tells us he had put on. robe of silver tissue, such. Caligula used to wear at banquets.
ACTS 12:20-22 The account in the Western text of the last days and death of Herod Agrippa I differs in several respects from that in the commonly received text. By using ga,r instead of de, (ver....
Verse Acts 12:21. _UPON A SET DAY_, c.] A day on which games, c., were exhibited in honour of the Roman emperor. What this refers to, we learn from Josephus. "Herod, having reigned three years over A...
AND UPON A SET DAY - An appointed, public day. This was the second day of the sports and games which Herod celebrated in Caesarea in honor of Claudius Caesar. Josephus has given an account of this occ...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The great Persecution by Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12:1)._ 2. The miraculous deliverance of Peter (Acts 12:6). 3. The Presumption and Judgment of Herod (Acts 12:18). 4. Barnabas and Sau...
FATE OF THE SOLDIERS AND OF HEROD. For the soldiers, _cf. Acts 5:21_ ff. Here they are led away to be put to death. The story of Herod's glorification and end is told by Josephus in a similar way; but...
Herod was furious with the people of Tyre and Sidon. But they came to him with a common purpose. They gained the ear of Blastus the king's chamberlain and sued for peace because their country was depe...
IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
SET. APPOINTED. ROYAL. Same as "king's", Acts 12:20. APPAREL. Josephus (_Antiquities_ XIX. viii. 2) says it was of silver tissue, and glittered resplendently in the sun. HIS THRONE. the throne. Gree...
_And upon a set day_ The day was one appointed (as Josephus tells us) for holding a festival on which to make vows for Cæsar's safety. _Herod, arrayed_(having arrayed himself) _in royal apparel_ See...
ΤΑΚΤΗ͂Ι ΔῈ ἩΜΈΡΑΙ, _and upon a set day_. The day was one appointed (as Josephus tells us) for holding a festival on which to make vows for the safety of the Roman emperor. Ὁ ἩΡΏΔΗΣ ἘΝΔΥΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ ἘΣΘΗ͂Τ...
DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA I. GROWTH OF THE CHURCH...
_HEROD DIED A TERRIBLE DEATH ACTS 12:20-25:_ Herod was highly displeased with people of Tyre and Sidon. But their country got its food from the region that he ruled. Blastus, the king's chamberlain ha...
ΤΑΚΤΉ _dat. sing. от_ ΤΑΚΤΌΣ (G5002) назначенный, избранный. _Dat._ времени. Согласно Иосифу Флавию, это было празднество в честь императора (Jos., Ant., 19:343), возможно, первое августа, день его ро...
DISCOURSE: 1774 THE EVIL OF PRIDE Acts 12:21. _And upon a set day Herod, arrayed, in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the...
AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, &C.— Upon occasion of the games and approaching festival hinted at in the last verse, there was a great resort of the governors and principal men of the neighbouring province...
5. AT JERUSALEM. Acts 12:1-24. a. Persecution of Herod. James beheaded. Peter imprisoned. Acts 12:1-5. Acts 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict certain of the c...
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And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL, SAT UPON HIS THRONE, [ beematos (G968)]...
17 The death of James and the escape of Peter mark a crisis in the history of the kingdom proclamation. The power in Jerusalem passes out of the hands of the apostles into the hands of James, the Lord...
IMPRISONMENT OF PETER. DEATH OF HEROD 1-19. Persecution of the Church at Jerusalem by Herod. Martyrdom of James the son of Zebedee. Peter's imprisonment and miraculous release. The Church was persecut...
DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA I, 44 a.d. Josephus's account of Herod's death, which is quite independent, confirms St. Luke's (see 'Ant.' 19.8)....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 12 PETER IN PRISON AGAIN, 12:1-5 V1 At that time, King Herod arrested some members of the *church. He made them suffer very badly. V2 He ordere...
AND UPON A SET DAY... — Josephus (_Ant._ xix. 8, § 2) gives an account of the incident that follows substantially agreeing with that here recorded. The scene was the theatre at Cæsarea, which had been...
τακτῇ : only here in N.T.; _cf._ Jos., _Ant._, xix., 8, 2 (_cf._ xviii., 6, 7), δευτέρᾳ δὲ τῶν θεωριῶν ἡμέρᾳ. It is quite true that Josephus says nothing directly of the Tyrians and Sidonians, but the...
BEYOND THEIR FAITH Acts 12:13-25 Mark's mother was evidently a woman of property, as her house was large enough to receive the many who felt that prayer was the key to open Peter's prison. Rhoda is R...
Again persecution broke out in Jerusalem, and the first of the apostolic band suffered martyrdom at the hands of Herod. A revealing sentence concerning Herod is that which declares that when "he saw t...
God Deals With Herod The next morning, as one might imagine, the prison was in turmoil. No one knew what had happened to Peter. When Herod could not find him, he had the guards executed. Roman law req...
DOOM OF THE TYRANT 20-23. For reasons not here specified, the king was exceedingly mad at the people of Tyre and Sidon, those great mercantile cities on the Mediterranean coasts. He was not allowed to...
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. (22) And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. (23) And i...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
21._Upon an appointed day. _Luke saith that the men of Tyrus and Sidon had peace granted them, because this was the occasion of the king’s oration, without doubt, that he might make them his underling...
Herod, to please the Jews, begins to persecute the assembly in that city. We may remark here, that the company of believers at Antioch are also called the assembly (church), which is the case nowhere...
AND UPON A SET DAY,.... Either on some feast day of divine appointment, as a feast day was by the Jews called מועד, "a stated day"; or on some day appointed by Herod, for the receiving of the ambassad...
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. Ver. 21. _And upon a set day_] When there were solemn shows and plays acted in honour of Caesar...
_And upon a set day_ When shows and games were exhibited by him in honour of Claudius Cesar; _Herod, arrayed in royal apparel_ In a garment so wrought with silver, that the rays of the rising sun, str...
The judgment of God upon Herod:...
AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL, SAT UPON HIS THRONE, AND MADE AN ORATION UNTO THEM....
For a brief time again our eyes are turned toward Jerusalem and Peter, though Peter's work is no longer taking the prominent place it did at the beginning. Being the apostle to the Jews, he manifestly...
SO ON A SET DAY HEROD, ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL, SAT ON HIS THRONE AND GAVE AN ORATION TO THEM. 1. Herod was dressed to impress. He was arrayed in garments that showed his power, wealth, and high pos...
20-25 Many heathen princes claimed and received Divine honours, but it was far more horrible impiety in Herod, who knew the word and worship of the living God, to accept such idolatrous honours witho...
UPON A SET DAY; this was (says Josephius, cap. 19. lib. 7) the second day of the sports or games, which Herod had instituted in honour of the emperor Claudius; or, it may he, such a day as Herod had a...
Acts 12:21 So G1161 set G5002 day G2250 Herod G2264 arrayed G1746 (G5671) royal G937 apparel G2066 sat...
‘And on a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal apparel, and sat on the throne, and made an oration to them.' The day came for the royal triumph. On the set day Herod clothed himself regally and sat...
JERUSALEM FINALLY REJECTS THE APOSTLES, KINGSHIP CEASES IN ISRAEL, AND THE WORD OF GOD GOES ON MULTIPLYING (12:1-24). The new centre for world evangelisation having been set up (unknowingly at the tim...
Acts 12:21. AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, ARRAYED IN ROYAL APPAREL, SAT UPON HIS THRONE, AND MADE AN ORATION UNTO THEM. Some fifty years before, Herod the Great, grandfather of the present king, had estab...
UPON A SET DAY (τακτη ημερα). Locative case and the verbal adjective of τασσω, to arrange, appoint, old word, here only in the N.T. Josephus (_Ant_. XVII. 6, 8; XIX. 8, 2) gives a full account of th...
CONTENTS: Persecutions of the church and arrest of Peter. Prayer for his deliverance and his miraculous release Death of Herod. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Herod, James, Peter, 2 soldiers, angel, Mary, Mark,...
Acts 12:1. _About that time,_ when the word of the Lord prevailed so remarkably in Antioch and the northern provinces, and when Paul and Barnabas had brought alms to Jerusalem, as in Acts 12:25, _Hero...
ON A CHOSEN DAY. This implies it was some special occasion. Josephus the Jewish historian tells about all this....
_And … Herod … went down from Judea to Caesarea._ THE DEATH OF HEROD This journey of Herod is described by Josephus. It would seem that he left Judaea in disgust and spleen because Peter had escaped...
_And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark._ JOHN MARK 1. Two names are here, one Jewish, the other Roman; the latter adopted at f...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 12:20. For AND HEROD read _And_, or but, _he—i.e._, Herod. HIGHLY DISPLEASED.—θυμομαχῶν, _in a hostile state of mind_, in modern phrase, “contemplating hostilities” (Plumptre),...
EXPOSITION ACTS 12:1 _Put _for _stretched, _A.V.;_ afflict _for _vex, _A.V. The phrase, ABOUT THAT TIME, as in Acts 19:23, points to what had just before been related (Meyer). The interposition of th...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Acts 12. Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church (Acts 12:1). There are just a lot of Herods in the Bible and it i...
Acts 12:21...
Set [τ α κ τ η]. Appointed. Only here in New Testament. What the festival was, is uncertain. According to some, it was in honor of the emperor's safe return from Britain. Others think it was to celebr...
HEROD'S DUPLICITY AND DEATH Acts 12:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We come now to our final message concerning Peter's third imprisonment. We are about to present the other side of the message. We have seen...
And on a set day — Which was solemnized yearly, in honour of Claudius Cesar; Herod, arrayed in royal apparel — In a garment so wrought with silver, that the rays of the rising sun striking upon, and b...
Upon. set day, that is, as some suppose, on his own birthday, he was arrayed in royal apparel, in. cloke made of cloth of silver, but dyed with St. James's blood, Acts 12:2. which being beaten upon by...